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OPINION: Just like everyone else, Idaho’s Attorney General must comply with the law
Three years ago, I joined five other former Idaho Attorneys General in describing that important position as “the …
PYP: Statement was a disgrace
Tom Hamilton’s admission of personal values of intolerance (“PYP Back in the Spotlight,” Sept. 19) echoes the small-mindedness and xenophobia of North Idaho’s national reputation of 20 years ago. It is such a disap…
PYP: Vitriol weakens editorial
Last spring during the heated Recall, I attended a lecture at the Coeur d’Alene library by a constitutional lawyer for which Mike Patrick was the emcee. That week Mr. Patrick wrote an editorial echoing and extollin…
LABRADOR: Has courage aplenty
Your CAST AN INFORMED VOTE editorial asserts Congressman Raul Labrador lacks political courage. I think we both know you don’t believe that for a second. The congressman has challenged you personally face-to-face a…
PYP: Growing minds is good
I have been reading with interest the news articles and letters about the PYP program at Hayden Meadows school. Based on what I have read, it seems to be a mind expansion program for younger students. One of the sc…
PRESS: Sold out for PYP
Mike Patrick argues that because trustee Tom Hamilton has values conflicting with PYP, he should not participate in the decision about the program? If Patrick applied the same standard to himself, he’d have been di…
TAXES: Why it doesn't compute
I filed for and have been receiving Social Security for about two years. The second Wednesday of every month they send me a check. I still haven’t gotten used to getting something that I “didn’t” work for.
ROMNEY: Tax record honorable
In response to incessant harping from Sen. Reid and numerous other wealth-loathing Democrats, Mitt Romney has released his 2011 tax information and a summary of his taxes paid from 1990-2009. Much to the chagrin of…
VOTE: You'll elect a Caesar
The presidential Election Day is almost here. Looking at both candidates, I was having a hard judgment call. With Mitt Romney, I disagree with a lot of his issues and the fact that he is of the Mormon religion; of …
RANGE: Get used to it
Farragut has been a range for nearly or more than 70 years. It is grandfathered in and those who moved next door knew it was a rifle range, knew there would be shooting taking place. If they don’t like it they need…
PYP: Through a student's eyes
My name is Brea McDonald and I am a seventh-grader at Canfield Middle School. I attended Hayden Meadows first through fifth grade, and loved the Primary Years Programme that we were so privileged to learn.
SCHOOL: Senior photo policy poor
I’m a senior at Lake City High School, and was very excited to get my senior pictures done. This last summer the district decided to make a rule that senior pictures must be: only from the waist up, no vertical sho…
CHICAGO: Memo to striking teachers
First of all, any teachers participating in the Chicago teachers strike should be docked in pay for every hour that they have been away from their jobs of teaching. In addition, the teachers union should be held ac…
PYP: Keep egos out of equation
Concerning the PYP program at Hayden Meadows. It is my understanding that Hayden Meadows is a “Magnet School” where this program is offered. Also that it is offered by SD271 as an option. If people don’t like it, t…
BALLOT: Asking wrong question
Are the Kootenai County Commissioners trying to confuse the voters on purpose? The ballot language for the half-baked idea of changing our county government and giving up our right to vote for who will represent us…
ROMNEY: Calling the kettle black
Mitt Romney says the 47 percent of Americans who support Obama “are people who pay no income tax… believe they are victims… (and) my job is not to worry about those people… I’ll never convince them they should take…